Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi

This is a simple one but I got a lost in translation when doing.

What I want to do, given both variables in the example below, to get one value at the time from both variables, for example:
1:a
2:b

etc...
I need to get this in bash scripting
code:

Code:

varas="1 2 3 4"
varbs="a b c d"
                i=`expr $i + 1`
                var=`echo '$'${i}`
                echo "$storeid:$var"
done

My code does not work as it should but, I have not find the way of getting $1, $2 and to print each value as per the counter, it just prints:
$1
$2
but not the values.

Any idea?

Many thanks

How about this (should work in bash or ksh):

Code:

varas=(1 2 3 4)
varbs=(a b c d)
i=0
while [ $i -lt ${#varas[@]} ]
do
    echo ${varas[i]}:${varbs[i]}
    let i=i+1
done

Chubler_XL,

What makes such a difference using " and ( ) ?

I tested with both and with ( ) the output is the expected but with " I get:

Code:

1 2 3 4:a b c d

Many thanks for your help

Yes, using ( ) defines an array. Where using quotes just assigns a string with spaces.

${#vars[@]} returns a count of items in the array.

Yes, you are totally right there. I was thinking uni-dimensional
many thanks for your help